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Wednesday, 16 September 2015

UCU London Retired Members Branch:UCU London Retired Members Branch

UCU London Retired Members Branch:UCU London Retired Members Branch

September Branch Newsletter

The
latest UCU London Retired members Branch Newsletter is now available
and may be downloaded
from here...includes articles on Housing, PFI in the NHS, Amnesty International.
National Pensioners’’ Convention: Older People’s Day (1st
October)

History Seminars

Socialist History SocietySaturday 19 September - Stan Newens, former Labour MP and
Socialist History Society Honorary President speaks on The
Achievements of the 1945 Labour Government.
Venue: Marx House, 37a Clerkenwell Green London EC1R 0DU. Time: 2.00
pm.UCL Institute of the Americas - Caribbean SeminarSeptember 30th 6pm David Lambert "Am I not a
Man and a Soldier?" (Re)imagining the West India Regiments in the
Age of Abolitionmore details...London Socialist Historians Group:12 October - Merilyn Moos - Generations:
the impact of the personal and political on children born in Britain to
refugees from Nazism26 October - John NewsingerBritish
Counter Insurgency. A history9 November - Chris JuryPolitics, theatre and
historySocialist History Society and the Freethought History Research
Group.The British Business of Slavery
A series of Tuesday evening talks starting on 6
October, running to 8 December 2015.
Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL. All
talks start at 7.00 p.m.

Tuesday 6 October 2015

Freedom’s Debt, the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
(1672- 1752)
Dr William Pettigrew, University of Kent

Tuesday 13 October 2015

First Prime Minister of the London Empire, William Beckford,
Jamaican Planter & Lord Mayor of London (1709 – 1770)
Dr Perry Gauci, University of Oxford

Tuesday 20 October 2015

The Law’s Ambiguous Struggle with Slavery
Prof Satvinder Juss, King’s College London

Tuesday 27 October 2015

George Hibbert M.P. (1757-1837) and the Defence of British
Slavery
Dr Katie Donington, University of Nottingham

Please contact P.Murry at yrrumuk@googlemail.com if you are interested.

GREEN LEFT FRINGE AT AUTUMN CONFERENCE 2012

Both Green Left and the Green Party Trade Union Group applied to have fringes at the Green Party Conference September 7-10 2012, Conferences Committee turned down both these requests. Green Left decided to mount a fringe outside conference at 6-8pm on Saturday 8th September GPTU agreed to support this meeting and contribute towards costs of room hire. Video clips at http://greenleftblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/green-left-fringe-fringe-at-green-party.html